Chris Bryden

This Q&A considers whether a governor’s permission is needed when to issue a claim when suing a prisoner and what information should be included on the claim form.

This Q&A looks at whether tenants can remove a management company after collectively enfranchising.

This Q&A considers whether a user clause which permits the use of premises as a golf club and for ancillary purposes would allow part of the club premises to be used as a restaurant or takeaway.

This Q&A considers whether two transfers of property for no monetary consideration would be an exchange for SDLT purposes.

This Q&A considers whether a business sale and purchase agreement completed pre-coronavirus (COVID-19) and which provides for deferred consideration dependent on post completion profits (12 months following completion) can, absent a force majeure clause, be rendered frustrated as a result of coronavirus and, if so, with what consequences.

This Q&A considers whether B can make a Part 36 offer to A, the terms of which are that B makes an offer to purchase land owned by A.

This question relates to the period, if any, that the recipient of a legacy in a Will must survive following the death of the testator.

This Q&A discusses whether the executors must pay the estate funds direct to the trustee in bankruptcy or whether they can pay the funds direct to the beneficiary where a beneficiary of a Will is bankrupt.

This Q&A considers how the doctrine of satisfaction applies where a beneficiary to a Will has received gifts within seven years of death.

This Q&A considers who the appropriate defendant to lease renewal proceedings is, where a business tenant has a lease containing a right to access land owned by a third party.

This Q&A looks at the effect of the sale of a business on a business and residential tenancy, where a business tenant uses a residential part of the property for a member of staff and has a protected tenancy under the Rent Act 1977 for that property.

This Q&A considers the steps required to enforce a child arrangements order made in this jurisdiction in the Republic of Ireland.

The Q&A considers whether a child arrangement order made by consent can subsequently be varied on the application of one of the parties.

This Q&A considers whether the receipt of child benefit by the other parent would prevent an application to the Child Maintenance Service.

This Q&A examines the potential options open to a defendant authority where they face a claim brought out of time under the Human Rights Act 1998.

This Q&A explains what to do where the claimant has no postal code address to include on their claim form as required by CPR PD 16, para 2.2

This Q&A considers whether there is a responsibility to make a referral to social services when a client raises concerns about a serious safeguarding risk to a child.

This Q&A considers what steps need to be taken to obtain a 'mirror order' in England and Wales where a consent order in respect of children has been made in another jurisdiction.

This Q&A considers whether an order resulting from financial remedy proceedings can be varied to achieve a clean break despite the parties deviating from the terms in the original consent order.

This Q&A considers whether there is a risk of a seller impliedly accepting a late completion or otherwise waiving its right to serve a notice to complete later, in relation to the Standard Commercial Property Conditions (Second Edition).